Meteors

Meteors is a video game in the action genre developed by Apogee Software, Ltd. and published by Softdisk Publishing originally released in 1989. It is currently playable on DOS.

Another excellent ASCII game by Scott Miller of Apogee game, Meteors was included in Softdisk's 'Big Blue Disk' issue 30. Here is a summary of the plot and gameplay taken from the game's instructions:

'A terrible catastrophe has occurred only minutes ago . . . an urgent distress signal from the USS Sagan, our largest scientific space station, stated that they were being torn apart by an unknown meteor storm. Your scout ship is the closest to the region. Your mission is to get your ship to the B32 quadrant and rescue as many survivors as possible. Hurry, their air supply won't last long. To navigate the Space Eagle through the meteor shower use the LEFT and RIGHT cursor keys. Rescue the survivors by touching them with the ship. Each sector will contain additional fuel canisters, shields and missiles that can be used to resupply the ship.

If you need to take a break, just press the letter 'P' on your keyboard to pause the game. If you want to quit the game, just press the letter 'Q' on your keyboard. Your ship comes equipped with 10 antimatter missiles, which can be used to destroy Meteors along the way. To fire a missile just press the UP arrow key or the letter 'M' on your keyboard. Your ship can absorb meteor hits equal to the number of shields you have, the next hit could destroy you. Use the hyperspace matter transfer device only as a last resort, as it consumes a large amount of ship fuel'.

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